June 21 – Reelfoot Lake: Oasis on the Mississippi [Book Signing], Jim Johnson – Obion County Public Library, 1221 East Reelfoot Avenue, Union City, Tennessee – Co-Sponsor: Obion County Historical Society. July 19 – Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence [Book Signing], Stuart Sanders – Calloway County Public Library, 710 Main Street, Murray, Kentucky. August 16 – Women’s Suffrage in Tennessee, Renee LaFleur – The Discovery Park of America, 830 Everett Boulvard, Union City, Tennessee. September 20 – The Career of Henry Ward [Book Signing], Sharon Roggenkamp – Henry Ward Building (Main Lodge)…
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Author Bernadette Rule will discuss her latest book, The Arithmetic of Color, at the next meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 26, at the Graves County Public Library in Mayfield. The meeting is free and open to the public. The Arithmetic of Color is the biography of Tom Johnson, a Graves County man of mixed race who lived from 1871 to 1929. Based on a true story meticulously researched, the book is written as a novel because of its dramatic character. Johnson’s life is at the center of the American experience, including poverty, middle…